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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

Werner Von Braun

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Pope Paul Vi

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

The halos exist, but are so faint that an extremely sensitive telescope such as Chandra is needed to detect them. Our observations solve the mystery of the missing hot halos around spiral galaxies.

Kristian Pedersen

The opening of this telescope represents one of those rare moments in a field of scientific endeavor when a great leap forward is enabled.

Bruce Betts

Because we have a dome now, instead of a flat roof, the telescope sits a lot higher on its mount. They built a platform that surrounds the base so that it is the perfect height for students to look into it.

Steve Lemoine

If you've ever looked through a telescope on the ground, all this shaking and shimmering going on (is) because you're using high-magnification track.

David Hathaway

What the crew did was put the turbocharger on this telescope. The Advanced Camera is going to add 10 times the capability to Hubble.

Garth Illingworth

Getting an observatory here had been a goal of the club for 30 years. It's a privilege to be associated with it and to have access to a research-grade telescope.

Walter Russell

However, to actually know what your seeing, a small telescope would be useful.

Alan Harris

We've designed the telescope at a fraction of the normal cost without losing any resolution.

David Buckley

This is due to the fact that the telescope at La Palma has a much bigger mirror. It is far too expensive to bring such large mirrors out into space.

Paal Brekke

We have established that the radio telescope we used, the Very Long Baseline Array, can measure distances with unprecedented accuracy--nearly a factor of 100 times better than previously accomplished.

Mark Reid

It was considered a piece of space junk 10 years ago. Human intervention was needed to fix the telescope.

Sean O'keefe

The telescope was designed to be very sensitive and have a very clean response to signals from the sky.

Timothy Robishaw

They're good for sweeping around for the comet and actually give you a better view actually than a big telescope.

Steve Maran

We have no idea if there really are aliens. The next question would be, If there are aliens, can we detect it? The answer is yes. With this telescope we now have a much better chance.

Bruce Betts

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

George Santayana

People accepted Canada as having a responsible solution to a very large telescope.

John Halliday

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests.

David Allan

This instrument can literally look back to the beginning of time. It can look at galaxies, planetary systems. It can look essentially for life. A lot of the unanswered questions now will possibly be discovered by this telescope.

John Halliday

TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

Ambrose Bierce

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Dr. Seuss

There was a man so very tall,That when you spoke you had to ballThrough both your hands, put like a cup,His head was such a long way up...He grew and grew - you could not seeWithout a telescope his knee;He grew till he was over-grown,And seen by oversight alone!

William Brighty Rands

It took hundreds of hours of telescope time before we were confident that we could do reliable science.

Timothy Robishaw

Scientists are keenly aware that the telescope is up there not doing anything. There's an enormous desire to get the telescope working. It's like a car -- you don't want to leave a car sitting in the garage not running. That's not good for it.

Anne Kinney

Carlson Tool has been indispensable in this project. We wouldn't have this telescope without the company's support.

Jeff Setzer

In a large telescope the motion would be perceptible against any stars in the field more or less in real time, sort of like watching the second hand on a clock, ... not quite that fast, but noticeable.

Alan Harris

When he came to me wanting to do something in astronomy, I got excited. Astronomy is my first love in science. But he wanted to buy a big telescope which we couldn't afford.

Norm Negus

First, we spent hundreds of hours since January 2003 trying to characterize how the telescope responds to radio waves.

Timothy Robishaw

With this method, we let the gravity of a dim, intervening star act as a giant natural telescope for us, magnifying a more distant star, which then temporarily looks brighter.

Andrew Williams

I think what really makes this telescope special is its high sensitivity, especially in spectroscopy.

Klaus Pontoppidan

If the skies are clear and the telescope is working right, you can see features on the surface of Mars.

Peter Jedicke

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

Victor Hugo

The southern Milky Way is more spectacular and provides a richer treasure trove of objects than the northern Milky Way. We're now players in the world of large telescopes. We're in an age in which answering the big, fundamental questions requires access to large telescopes in good, dark skies. SALT is just such a telescope.

Eric Wilcots